All Posts by Arkane_A
All Posts by Arkane_A - 353 found
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6/23/08 12:25 AM
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Originally posted by BigMango
Yep, I have played for almost 1 month now and I'm still in my early 50ies, with about 5 days /played. If you average this in 30 days that's about 4 hours per day, every day. And I'm far from running out of content.
I played on average a good 4 hours a day for the two and a half weeks I played to get to 45. The longest night I played AoC for was like 7 hours or 8 hours and it was the first night I played because I didn't have early access and wanted to get to 25 before I logged. It doesn't take long to level when all you do is quest in groups. |
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6/23/08 12:23 AM
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I came to this site to find out system requirements for past games and I happened to get intrigued by the title of this thread. I read every post on every page and must point out three things: 1) I have a level 45 Tempest of Set ( or did rather, I don't have an active subscription to it anymore ). On this Tempest of Set I have done 0 grinding to this point. All I have done is all the quests available to me. I am not in the Fields of the Dead and the only quests I have left are three red colored ones and I am nowhere near leveled. The issue is I have done every single quest my level or lower in every zone available to me, and I did post this a while back. I now am forced to grind and I am still 35 levels away from the level cap. This should not be the case and I have never completely run out of quests in a game my first time through without having more "of level" quests. If I chose to complete the three quests I won't get the full experience reward because it is red and I get punished for completing them early. At the same time I must complete them early to ease the grind or it will get way out of hand. I was never a part of a launch where this happened before and I was shocked to find out I couldn't find anymore quests for myself. This is about a week before I decided to stop playing which was about two weeks ago. I can completely understand people running out of quests when they get to this area if they chose not to grind just like I did. It happened and I saw it with my own two eyes.
2) What you call "trolls" are asking valid questions to you that you refuse to answer. They want to know, from you, HOW AGE OF CONAN IS BETTER THAN THOSE OTHER GAMES? They aren't referring to ratings or any numerical value, they are asking what makes this game, to you, better? Do you think the combat is all that much greater? Do you feel the story is that much more involving than previous games? Is it just graphics? This is what they are asking. This is what they want you to answer. They just wanted you to compare it to all those other mmos and give reasons why you feel this is already better than them. 3) This review was done poorly on a couple bases. No mmo out there right now is perfect, bug free, and full of content to your hearts content. 7's and 8's seem fair and anyone who gives ratings and reviews now based on WHAT COULD be in months is sort of defeating the purpose of a review. Even the people here saying I will give it a similar rating in a few months. _________________________________________________________________ Things you have to give points off for just like any other mmo: 1) Bugs - Every game has these so it is to be expected. 2) Optimization - You shouldn't meet the recommended specs on the box and only run between 2-12 fps in a siege battle. That was poor for those of you who saw the video. 3) Customer Service - I personally stayed online for 12 hours on the 24th, which was four days after retails launch, and never had a petition answered. This was horrible. It got answer the following night of a 4 hours play session. 4) Loot tables and the fact that some dungeons were launched and dropped 0 loot. 5) Mounted Combat and the casting issues. 6) A game that was built from the ground up with dx10 supposedly and advertised as a Games for Windows product failing to have Dx10. The first time people will be seeing it on the retail client is at a convention. 6) Lack of content right at the mid levels. 7) My Tempest of Set had a heal for a while there that made it so my heals actually only land half the time so during battle at times I would get surprised by casting a heal and having the healing never take affect. This was a known bug that they were working on fixing. 8) Crafting and the fact most of the drops are better than anything you craft. 9) In siege battles some of the walls can just be walked through, not needing to damage it, nor walk around. 10) Siege weapons ... broken and not needing a comment. 11) Massive battles were squashed to 96 total people, which is actually still good but they had interviews talking about hundreds of players battling in one area so that would be a knock. _________________________________________________________________ I actually enjoyed the game up until the 40s when the quests were running dry and I would totally recommend AoC to friends with high end machines, but I just wanted to point out issues with the game that would not justify such a high rating of 9.7. I also wanted to add that I felt over the past handful and some years that games in general have been receiving some very odd reviews. Most of these MMOs that launch are so buggy, incomplete, and lacking balance or content for the most part that they don't warrant scores higher than a 7.5 yet reviewers for sites like that find ways to give them 8s and higher. I made a quick list as you can see, in about 10 minutes, on how AoC can't seriously be rated a 97%. That is just 3% away from being a perfect score. Sieging was supposed to be a big part of this game, as was DX10, mounted combat, having the game run great on many rigs because it is very scalable, and so on, but according to a score like that, these features make up just 3% of the game, and the rest would be perfect. |
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6/09/08 9:54 PM
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Just wanted to point out that we have created the Acolytes on mmorpg.com's guild list page/feature! |
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5/27/08 4:51 PM
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Originally posted by CelestianI played WoW for three years as an end game raider and pvper and not once, not once, did I ever go to their official forums. I played FFXI for four years and not once ever even searched for an official forum. I played DAoC for 5 years and there was no official forum but I didn't see the need. Vanguard was the first game I went to an official forum and it was a travesty trying to sort through all the garbage. I am having the same problem now with the AoC forums and those of my guild mates that can even get on their forums complain about the same issues. It isn't NEEDED. You could find the same information on the game on a fan site. If people who exploited AoC to level up and make gold and are a known exploiter guild posted HOW to do it on their official forums, they get a small slap on the wrist and rolled back to level one. I can't think of a single WAR forum where if it happened they would not be banned from the forums. Show me something on an official forum from another player that can not be found elsewhere? |
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5/27/08 4:39 PM
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14 hours of /played and I am level 34 now. I think the class is OP in many ways but it seems a bit boring and bland. You use your two hots before you start a pull, cast your lightning nuke two to three times and then use your fast direct heal and nuke two more times. Through this method you can typically take 2-3 mobs above your level. For example, before the servers went down I was in a dungeon to find a sarcophagus that had level 35 mobs in there. I went in at 33 and I could pull 3 easily and 4 if one was a minion. It is a pretty simple class and I only need to hit three different buttons during a PVE fight. |
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5/27/08 4:32 PM
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Unfortunately if they had official forums they would moderate it lightly because they would not want to ban or suspend paying customers. Therefore the threads and posts get moderated with special care rather than how they should actually be moderated. A fan site has no problems banning idiots from their forums because they do not pay to use the forums. I have seen posts on AoC's official forums that were worthy of banning but did not get one because they are obviously paying customers. At the same time a lot of people are banned from their forums for no reason because of an error on FunComs part. Their official forums have been nothing but a headache to this point. |
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5/27/08 4:27 PM
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Originally posted by j_jonson What is more sad? Some of the level 80's were exploiters. They ended up getting sent back to level 1, and some of them are level 80 again and without exploits this time. |
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5/27/08 4:23 PM
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About 30 more minutes. |
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5/27/08 4:20 PM
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Originally posted by ASmith84 How is it his fault if there is a lack of things to do? |
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5/27/08 4:05 PM
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Originally posted by neonakaDon't look at it as days played because most people don't play 24 hours a day. In 7 days and at level 33 I have 14 hours of /played. The reason it holds little weight in my book is because I can not tell you how many times I have played a game or watched a movie that sucked at the beginning, but then kicked a lot of ass later on. At the same time I have seen the other effect as well, where it was awesome at the beginning and just ended poorly. How many times have you been blown away by how awesome an MMO is on launch week? I have played just about all of them and not once have I thought thus far during the first week of any mmo launch that it would be the game I played for the next five years. It turns out I ended up playing FFXI, WoW, Shadowbane, and DAoC for three years or more each but if I was going off of 7 days or 14 hours playtime, I would have only played the first 7 days and left.
On the graphics things, this is a stupid debate and obviously AoC has more to offer than graphics, AND I AM SOMEBODY WHO DOES NOT LIKE AOC, but since you wanted to use a real life example, I will too.
Why do people go into stores and purchase new systems to play new RPGs when the consensus believes that the RPGs from NES, SNES, PS1, and N64? The games were better back then but people still purchase RPGs on Xbox360, Playstation 2, and Playstation 3. A lot of people could care less about graphics but at the same time a lot of people do. |
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5/27/08 2:36 PM
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Originally posted by chrimwinsterOn him calling it horrible, it is the same to as as somebody else saying it is great based off of a week of play. It doesn't hold much weight. As far as computers go a computer that is one year old isn't exactly dated but somebody who bought their PC two to three years ago that can run any other mmo on max settings completely capped out would get around 8-14 fps in AoC thus needing to spend another 800 bucks or so to get a new computer to play the game unless they build it themselves, which most casual players do not. His GW reference comes from the fact that both games are heavily instanced. You can not ignore the loading screens every 15 minutes or so in Tortage, and that would be around 30-45 minutes out of Tortage I run around to load screens. To say they are not similar at all is a case of over and understating obvious things. |
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5/27/08 11:20 AM
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Originally posted by Lanthir This isn't exactly true seeing as nobody is subscribing to the game yet since everyone is still on their 30 free days. On top of this the article states that it is 400,000 people entered the world of Hyboria since it launched. On it being 700k copies sold if you read the article that I linked they stated it was 700k preorders and asked people who preordered to post their thoughts once they played it. Plus, that would make absolutely 0 sense which is what I was trying to figure out, why would 700k copies sell but only 400k people log in? |
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5/26/08 11:21 PM
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Originally posted by keolien But they are saying out of 700k copies that sold, only 400k of them have actually logged in. Even people who bought it without knowing specs would have logged in and then saw how it ran. So currently that means 300k people have the game and have yet to actually even try it or something. Very odd. Or one of the two related articles have inaccurate numbers. |
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5/26/08 11:15 PM
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My only issue with AoC isn't the game, it is the slow response of customer service and GMs. I am enjoying the game but I wanted to be nice and report a bug on a quest and did a petition. I sent it in at 8 am Sunday morning. I was 428th in line. It is now Monday at 12 am and I am now getting to 188 in line. At this current pace it would take me 3-4 days per issue I have that needs tending to.
On topic though, why wouldn't you wait until the middle of next month to cancel rather than doing it now if you were going to do such a thing? |
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5/26/08 10:46 PM
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How the hell did they ship 700,000 units of the game in total but only 400,000 are playing?
http://www.mmocrunch.com/2008/05/19/age-of-conan-ships-700000-units/
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5/19/08 7:48 PM
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Originally posted by Vendayn This is correct. |
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5/19/08 7:25 PM
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Originally posted by Fireside286 Banned from multiple games. |
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5/19/08 7:17 PM
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http://www.ebonlore.org/dkp/listmembers.php?o=6.0&filter=none 5 level 80's for them already, exploiting for sure. For those who want to say it isn't true, their level had been confirmed in game before they took the servers down. |
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5/19/08 5:20 PM
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Originally posted by TsukieUStop being ignorant and try to be helpful. If you do not have something to add than you shouldn't post as you aren't mature enough to play this game. I am 21 and do not own a credit card because I do not need one and prefer to pay things with cash. On the flip side I can easily call my parents and ask them if I can use their credit card to play the game and front them the money for it.
Yes a credit card is required if you do not wish to use prepaid cards or other payment plans they have listed on their site. |
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5/19/08 4:33 PM
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Originally posted by Ixnatifual Nah, Open Beta is just a word that gets thrown around regardlessly. NDA will be dropped before Open Beta begins. |
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Someone posted over on the AoC forums that people were using a quest exploint in the fields of the dead to level from 35 to 50+ in a matter of a few hours. I don't know if I should post the exploit because I want this post to stay here but he/she mentioned that Exodus Syndicate, Addicted, and Ebonlore were the primary exploiters.
